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Most authors who have described the genus Himantia,
have expressed their opinion that several of the species might
eventually prove to be imperfect states of other plants. Many
of them have evidently a near relation to the genus Thele-
phora; so much so, indeed, that M. A d o l p h e B r o n g n i a r t
observes it to be very difficult to say whether the genus Athelia
of P e r s o o n should be placed along with Himantia or fhele-
phora, since it passes insensibly into both. The celebrated
F r i e s has placed Himantia domestica, rosea, and sulphurea,
as a subgenus to Thelephora. The remainder he has not yet
described; hut the present one will probably he included with
most of them under the genus Hypochnus, alluded to at p. 452.
of his first volume. In the mean time, I have continued the
old established name.
L i n k , in 7th volume o f the Berlin Magazine, attributes a
globose form to the sporidia: to me they appeared oblong.
Fig. 1. H. Candida, natural size. Fig. 2. One o f the larger bundles o f filaments
with its ramifications Fig. 3. Filaments and jÿoriÆa/—magnified.
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